The Singapore Turf Club (http://www.turfclub.com.sg/) is housed in a 80 hectare complex of lush greenery.
It provides stabling for over 1000 horses and has the potential to expand.

The racing track surface is StrathAyr Turf (www.strathayr.com.au/index.htm). It is one of the safest and most resilient natural grass surfaces for horseracing. The racing direction is anti-clockwise.

There are varied training tracks available which include a fibresand track, a deeper sand track for slow work used anti-clockwise, a poly fibre trotting track, a heath track and a 1100metre sand track which sweeps around the outside of the grass track giving trainers an option to gallop their horses anti-clockwise.

Other facilities include:-

• swimming pool
• horse scales
• rubber walking surfaces
• quarantine stabling for international horses
• resting/spelling facilities
• 24 hour security
• rolling boxes
• lunging arena
• bull ring with removable jumps
• practice barrier stalls
• Singapore Training Academy for Racing
  

Steven Burridge Racing Facilities

We have installed our own high speed treadmill. Heart rate monitors are used for all fast work.

We have the use of an 8 compartment horse walker.

We have our own weighing scale which is located inside our stable complex.
As well as an ice machine and ice bucket spa, we have an equine inhaler which we use to help treat respiratory conditions and air-way allergies.

Equissage and BioScan - Non-invasive Therapy for Horses.

It probably goes without saying that all racehorses work in an intense training environment and pre-race training involves an increase in work levels on a daily basis. Speed is the ultimate goal yet speed is the ultimate danger when it comes to keeping the horses in peak condition, free from ligament or tendon damage, from muscle soreness, bruises and knocks.

For all these reasons, at the Burridge stables Julie is keen to keep the horses on their feet and to this end she employs two non-invasive therapy tools - the Equissage equipment and technique and the BioScan system.

Considered one the of safest forms of physiotherapy available, Equissage is a form of electrical “cycloid” massage delivered through a back pad, a hand-held pack or a leg and tendon boot. The stimulation produced through any of these methods improves local-site blood circulation and venous drainage. It also encourages lymphatic drainage, relaxes muscles and releases tension while increasing joint mobility and improving respiratory conditions and can be used on both injured and healthy horses alike.

Horses have twenty-five main nerve and acupressure points which, when blocked, lead to poor performance in the shape of shortened strides, head and neck problems or possible hip or shoulder lameness. In such cases the Equissage back pack gives both muscle and skeletal relief and benefit while, at the same time, increasing the activity of the circulatory and lymphatic systems. Prior to racing this can be used (pre-holding yard) to warm up a horse and used again post-race to help reduce any detrimental build-up of lactic acid or stiffening of muscles and joints.

Used in conjunction with the back pad (which is already stimulating lymphatic drainage) the hand pack becomes effective on specific muscles and joints, including the hoof where bruising can be minimized and circulation increased to promote healthy hoof growth. The leg and tendon boot is effective on pulled ligaments and tendons as well as instrumental in decreasing swelling from knocks or bruises. General stimulation of the circulatory system is beneficial in avoiding fibrinogen problems. Fibrinogen, produced in the liver, is the principle protein active in normal vertebrate blood clotting. However, fibrinogen levels may become elevated in any form of inflammation leading to possible thrombosis or cardiovascular problems - just as lowered levels can lead to minor bleeding or even hemorrhage.

In conjunction with Equissage, Julie is also currently using the more specifically targeted BioScan system in both its therapeutic and remedial capacity. The hand-held BioScan light generates photodynamic light, tuned to specific frequencies. Cellular tissues absorb this infrared energy, causing a biological response within that cellular tissue, releasing healing enzymes into the cellular structure.

Apart from delivering similar benefits to the Equissage system in terms of increased blood circulation and muscle stimulation, BioScan aids in the repair process, encouraging damaged cells to be replaced more promptly. Tissue granulation, imperative as part of the healing process in wounds, ulcers or general inflammation, is also stimulated and the overall immune response is energized.

Both these easy-to-use portable therapy machines are in constant use in the Burridge stables with a possible six to eight horses receiving treatment each afternoon.

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